![]() “It is now the most infectious strain, the Delta variant, it is going to be more and more difficult to contain it when we have something like 3000 people in our hotel quarantine.” “I’m telling you we can’t contain this virus,” she said. Speaking on the ABC’s QandA on Thursday night, Ms Palaszczuk said Australia simply could not contain new variant with its current systems, pointing to hotel quarantine breaches in nearly every state. One of them was a Brisbane hospital receptionist who had spent 10 days in the community while infectious with the Delta variant. Ms Palaszczuk called the snap Covid-19 lockdown for south-east Queensland, Townsville, Palm Island and Magnetic Island on Tuesday after a two new locally acquired cases of the virus were detected. “We’ve got got another 24 hours to see what happens and we will update you tomorrow in relation to whether or not we can (end) lockdown,” she said. ![]() All of this and the fact that we are not seeing more wide-scale community cases is very encouraging.”īut the Premier warned “we’re not out of the woods yet”. “We have had record tests in the past 24 hours and we have had again a record vaccine number delivered. “We are very encouraged at the moment that we’ve only really got those two cases,” Ms Palaszczuk told reporters in Brisbane. It came after Ms Palaszczuk said on Thursday that the fact there were only two locally acquired cases overnight was “very encouraging news”. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young. “Like I’ve said, we need to get the population vaccinated and then we will be in a position where we won’t have to do these lockdowns.” “Unfortunately we are in a world pandemic and no one knew that the virus was going to keep mutating, that we were going to have this highly contagious Delta strain now,” she said. Ms Palaszczuk conceded it was “incredibly difficult” for small business owners. It is a very sensible question, I would hope that it doesn’t need to be extended.” “We have extended it today because of these totally unknown cases but let’s just get through today,” she said. “I don’t want to spread this virus beyond where it currently is.”Īsked what would cause the lockdown to be further extended past tomorrow, Dr Young said it was “too early” to say. “Please don’t leave Brisbane or Moreton Bay to go anywhere else,” she said. I am just asking for that extra 24 hours.”īREAKING: Lockdown will extend for 24 hours in the Brisbane and Moreton Bay local government areas after additional.Posted by Annastacia Palaszczuk MP on Thursday, July 1, 2021Ĭhief health officer Jeannette Young said she was “grateful that people will remain in lockdown” in those two local government areas. We will get more information during the day but it is absolutely vital that we get on top of this today, everyone. “We really need our contact tracers, this is the advice of Dr Young, to really get on top of this issue quickly today. “They have been out quite extensively around Brisbane,” she said. Health authorities do not know how the mother and daughter caught the virus. ![]() Ms Palaszczuk made the decision after three new cases were detected overnight, including a mother and daughter from Carindale and a Brisbane International Airport employee, linked to a Qatar Airways check-in counter worker announced yesterday. “That means everyone will have to carry a mask on them and wear that mask whenever they’re outside of their home, but not when you are driving your vehicle, but obviously that means going to shopping centres, hospitals, aged care facilities, churches, everywhere else.” “There will be restrictions that continue to apply – those restrictions will be in place for the next two weeks,” she said. The stay-at-home orders will end tonight for Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, Townsville and Palm Island. “The Brisbane City Council and Moreton Bay local government areas, the lockdown will continue for 24 hours,” the Premier said. ![]() Annastacia Palaszczuk has extended the three-day snap lockdown past 6pm tonight for parts of the state, in a blow to Queenslanders. ![]()
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